Alexander Campbell (Ohio)

Alexander Campbell (1779-5 November 1857) was a US Senator from Ohio from 11 December 1809 to 4 March 1813, succeeding Stanley Griswold and preceding Jeremiah Morrow. He was a Democratic-Republican.

Biography
Alexander Campbell was born in Frederick County, Virginia in 1779, and he moved to eastern Tennessee and then to Kentucky with his parents. In 1804, he settled in Adams County, Ohio, and he served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1807 to 1812. He resigned in order to become a US Senator, and he was an early anti-slavery campaigner. He again served in the State House in 1819 and from 1832 to 1833, and in the State Senate from 1822 to 1824. He died in 1857.